One of the ski racing vocabulary terms I’ve learned is “prime years.” Whether by objective/scientific determination or because people say...

From what I’ve heard, Austria’s ski racers are the World Cup’s most highly-scrutinized by their fellow citizens. There’s a superb...

2022 WAWC POST notes – Competitors’ improvement potential. Category for young folks a few tenths from greatness. 7/21 original notes...

Marta Bassino is one of the ten best WAWC racers, regardless of how any other competitor’s performance is parsed or categorized. This is...

A fave IG is Ester Ledecka walking into a boy’s hockey game on a pond, and mischievously flicking away the puck. We see her grin as she...

WC 2022 POST-season notes - Heavy Hitters 7/21 original notes Calibiri 7/22 Post notes in Arial Narrow (Calibri Italic here) 7/22 Post...

Breezy Johnson is a ski racer’s ski racer. On boards at three; committed to racing shortly thereafter, her determination quickly seen by...

For me, an impressionable American, Michelle Gisin is a classic WC ski racer: composed yet loquacious, optimistic, dogged; from a skiing...

Sofia Goggia. St. Moritz - December 2022 Six racers who finished top-10 Overall for 2021; one 13th who demands inclusion, IMO. As I...

Two mighty scamps to watch. Emma Aicher (19) is Germany’s budding hope for multi-disciplinary excellence, which vanished when Vicky...

I rely mostly upon these sources while shaping my opinions: watching races in their entirety, via the service with USA rights per event...